Pledge

Canada urgently needs a national food policy.

Right now,

• close to two and a half million Canadians regularly have trouble putting food on the table,

• thousands of family farms are disappearing every year,

• the environment is being pushed to the limit,

• a quarter of Canadians are obese,

• Canada is the only G8 country without a nationally-funded school meal program.
  

Policy making is not just for politicians. Everyone who eats should have a say in the future of food.

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Add your voice to calls for a National Food Policy that connects food, health, agriculture, the environment and social justice.

Yes! I support a national food policy that:

• Localizes the system so that food is eaten as close as possible to where it is produced and so that food dollars support the local economy.

• Supports food providers in a widespread shift to ecological production, including programs to support new farmers getting on the land.

• Enacts federal poverty elimination and prevention programs to ensure Canadians can better afford healthy food.

• Creates a nationally-funded children and food strategy.

• Ensures that the public is actively involved in decisions that affect the food system.

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